{"id":28729,"date":"2025-09-18T00:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T00:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/28729\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T00:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T00:56:09","slug":"father-and-son-in-alleged-mosgiel-bat-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/28729\/","title":{"rendered":"Father and son in alleged Mosgiel bat attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A father and son hunting for a Mosgiel resident armed with baseball bats allegedly resorted to smashing up the person&#8217;s car.<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old and 15-year-old showed up at the victim&#8217;s property in Stirling St, Mosgiel at about 8pm last night with a third person, Senior Sergeant Anthony Bond said.<\/p>\n<p>They went into the home but could not locate the person they were looking for.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they headed back outside and the father and son allegedly started to smash up the victim&#8217;s car with their bats.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called and arrested the pair.<\/p>\n<p>Both were charged with wilful damage and would appear in Dunedin District Court, and Dunedin Youth Court at a later date.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/news\/dunedin\/mailto:laine.priestley@odt.co.nz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">laine.priestley@odt.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A father and son hunting for a Mosgiel resident armed with baseball bats allegedly resorted to smashing up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-28729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}